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- Jan 20:
- Live updates: San Rafael Council hears demands for SMART bike paths at end of busy Tuesday night
- Sep 2:
- Tuesday night updates: San Rafael Council approves Beach Park deal, finds SMART station inadequate
- Aug 27:
- San Rafael residents urge city to move forward with SMART quiet zones
- Aug 24:
- San Rafael plans three meetings on SMART quiet zones
- Aug 8:
- SMART uproots chimera redwood to safety
- Aug 6:
- Freight operator's business concern over SMART tracks brushed aside
- Aug 3:
- Marin Voice: SMART's making steady progress toward starting service
- Jul 26:
- Editorial: SMART leaders should learn from grand juries' questions
- Jul 25:
- George Russell: SMART tracks a challenge for San Rafael Transit Center
- Jul 21:
- With SMART coming, San Rafael transit hub to face 'jigsaw puzzle' of complications
- Jul 16:
- SMART board rejects many Marin grand jury findings, but says it needs to reflect
- Jul 12:
- Dick Spotswood: SMART board needs to be talking about train service
- Jul 8:
- Sonoma grand jury report faults SMART oversight
- Jun 18:
- Larkspur Landing SMART Station Area Plan meeting, 6:30 p.m.
- Jun 15:
- Marin Voice: Too many unresolved problems with Larkspur Landing rezoning
- Jun 12:
- Editorial: SMART's Clipper card decision is a sign of progress
- Jun 6:
- Clipper cards to be used for SMART train when service launches in 2016
- May 29:
- SMART train and bikeway winners as regional agency hands out $40 million
- May 22:
- Majority of speakers at meeting on Larkspur SMART Station Area Plan against plan
- May 17:
- George Russell: Is Larkspur Landing station development plan the next WinCup?
- May 16:
- Marin Voice: Larkspur Landing's planning challenge
- May 15:
- Community will hold meeting on Larkspur SMART Station Area Plan
- May 7:
- Long rails arrive in Novato as work continues on SMART train project
- Apr 30:
- Marin grand jury: SMART board members need to be more vigilant
- Apr 11:
- SMART extension to Larkspur gets two approvals from key agency
- Apr 10:
- Editorial: SMART train's Marin work is a sign of progress
- Apr 5:
- Public review underway for draft Larkspur SMART Station Area Plan
- Mar 31:
- SMART cars under construction in Japan, due in Marin for testing next year
- Mar 19:
- SMART will seek federal funds to extend rail line from San Rafael to Larkspur
- Mar 14:
- SMART halts plans to chop down rare Sonoma redwood
- Mar 12:
- Rare redwood in Sonoma County faces chopping block due to SMART train
- Mar 11:
- SMART track work begins in Marin, service starts by 2016
- Feb 21:
- SMART rail costs rise with line extension
- Dec 23:
- New San Rafael councilwoman sees no conflict in SMART post
- Dec 18:
- SMART train to connect Marin to Santa Rosa airport
- Dec 7:
- Dick Spotswood: Larkspur Landing plan is a big trial balloon
- Marin Voice: Larkspur Landing station plan is a positive step forward
- Nov 27:
- Plans advance for housing near Larkspur SMART station
- Nov 20:
- SMART approves final construction contract, work in Marin to begin in spring
- Oct 13:
- Larkspur SMART connection suddenly looks real
- Oct 11:
- Rail agency cuts deal to save 56 acres of marsh lands near Novato
- Sep 23:
- SMART rail project gets key approval to build south to Larkspur
MARIN'S grand jury just issued a report critical of the 12-member Sonoma-Marin Area Rail Transit District's Board of Directors.
The jurors concluded that the "SMART Board of Directors should play a more active role in representing the interests of the citizens of Sonoma and Marin counties in governing and providing oversight of the SMART project. We found that some board members do not have an adequate understanding of the financial and system operating issues."
The jury's concern with a lack of training is valid but only half the problem. SMART's board composition, while typical of regional agencies, is inherently doomed to mediocrity.
Few current or past directors have any personal or professional experience with the agency's primary mission.
The board is purely political in composition.
The initial goal was equal representation of both counties and consultation with local jurisdictions. There was zero concern with having directors possess individual qualifications.
SMART's board consists of two county supervisors and three council members each from Marin and Sonoma. Add to that two Golden Gate Bridge directors who, since they are from Mendocino and Napa, provide neutrality.
With the exception of longtime SMART director and Rohnert Park Councilman Jake Mackenzie and San Rafael Mayor Gary Phillips, an accountant, other directors have little knowledge about railroads, finance or construction.
Those are talents helpful in governing what is effectively a specialized start-up.
Obviously, they should receive training when appointed. They shouldn't have been appointed in the first place if they didn't possess substantial knowledge of SMART's history, organization and finances.
That when quizzed by grand jurors, many board members failed to know the basics about their agency is both a personal criticism of individual directors and institutional error.
The dilemma is that SMART has an exclusively political board.
As in any well-managed publicly traded corporation or boards of some better-run East Coast public authorities, what's needed are directors with specialized expertise who can perform meaningful oversight and confidently challenge staff when appropriate.
Here are three questions that qualified SMART board members should be able to answer without hints from staff:
What can SMART do if, when operations start, critics are wrong and more passengers than planned try to ride the commuter train?
What would it cost to add additional capacity given the irreversible decision that stations are being constructed to handle only custom-made two-car trains.
Explain the cost to actually run SMART's trains and identify sources of long-term operating revenue.
Detail what's being done to provide shuttle buses so the Marin-Sonoma train is part of a comprehensive transit network. How are they funded?
There are few satisfying answers to these questions, even from knowledgeable staff members. That's because affairs went out of control under the agency's prior general manager, when directors didn't have sufficient knowledge about commuter rail — preventing them from asking meaningful questions.
The remedy is state legislation changing the model of selecting SMART's directors.
Unfortunately, elected board members wouldn't be any better. It would still be just a collection of politicos.
Let's acknowledge that some political liaison is beneficial. Have only one county supervisor and one council member from each county. For a neutral tie-breaker select one Golden Gate Bridge director.
That cuts the politicians from 12 to five.
Then add four nonpoliticians, two from each county, each with specific expertise. Ideally one would know something about rail, another with financial experience or labor practices and someone in construction management.
When these folks ask questions they'll know if they are getting the truth or just spin.
SMART can succeed only under optimum conditions. It needs nothing less than competency at all levels.
Columnist Dick Spotswood of Mill Valley now shares his views on local politics twice weekly in the IJ. His email address is firstname.lastname@example.com.

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Where are you right now?
JEFF- In London, heading to LA
JOHN- NYC flying back to LA tonight
What is your current state of mind?
JEFF- Focused and looking forward to the new year
JOHN- Focused
Where do you feel most at home?
JEFF- In Los Angeles (been traveling most of the year)
JOHN- Los Angeles
Why fashion?
JEFF- I think eyewear is a bit of fashion and industrial design, so that mix between both is interesting to us. We get influence from cars, planes, furniture, watches and other gadgets.
JOHN- It affects everyone in one way or another
What's the best advice you've ever been given?
JEFF- Work smart, not hard
JOHN- There's two that sick out:
" Life is a one time opportunity "
" If you keep doing what your doing you'll keep getting what your getting."
What was the biggest risk you've ever taken?
JEFF- Starting DITA on a shoe string budget
JOHN- Love
What is your perfect idea of happiness? When and where were you happiest?
JEFF- When you're in harmony with what your doing at that moment
JOHN- Being with the people you love the most and laughing at something so hard it hurts.100 miles off the coast of Sumatra surfing perfect waves in the Mentawai island chain with your best friends.
If you could change one thing about yourself what would it be?
JEFF- Try to pay more attention
JOHN- Prioritize health more in my life
What is your greatest fear?
JEFF- Fear itself
JOHN- Not going to heaven
Which living person do you most admire?
JOHN- Ray Donovan
What is your greatest extravagance?
JEFF- Time
JOHN- Travel
What was the last thing you bought?
JEFF- A Schott flight Ma-1 jacket
JOHN- Vintage Polaroid camera
What is your most treasured possession?
JEFF- My 5'8″ Kane Garden fish (surfboard)
JOHN- The Rolex my mother and grandma bought me
What would you like to be reincarnated as?
JEFF- A human being
JOHN- Good question, probably a rock-star
What do you consider your greatest achievement?
JEFF- I have not achieved it yet
JOHN- Surviving 18 years in business
If I wasn't doing this job, I would have liked to be…
JEFF- A Filmmaker
JOHN- Photographer
What are you reading right now?
JEFF- The world as I see it" by Einstein
JOHN- "The Four Agreements" by Miguel Ruiz
What as the last film you watched?
JEFF- Broken Song
JOHN- Bad Grandpa
If your life could be a film, which would it be?
JEFF- Endless Summer
JOHN- Iron Man
What makes you laugh?
JOHN- Pranks
What makes you cry?
JOHN- When innocent children have to suffer from cancer
What's on your iPod?
JEFF- Space is Only Noise by Nicholas Jaar, Old Ideas by Leonard Cohen, The Songs the Lord Taught Us by The Cramps, Moanin' by Mr. Airplane Plane, Sings the Blues by Nina Simone.
JOHN- Everything
What sites do you visit everyday?
JEFF- surfline.com, hemmings.com
JOHN- Gmail
Which question do you most dread being asked?
JEFF- How did you come up with the name DITA?
JOHN- The 6th question. ( I gave a bullshit answer )


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When Charlotte lands a convention, the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority touts how many dollars visitors are expected to leave behind, with the results often in the millions or tens of millions.
The numbers have been impressive, but they were often wrong, an Observer analysis shows. For five years, the CRVA often inflated the impact of its events, sometimes contradicting earlier claims.
In July 2010, Charlotte hosted Church of God in Christs International Auxiliaries In Ministry Convention an event the CRVA first said would produce $6 million in visitor spending.
Earlier this year, the CRVA reversed itself, and said the event produced nearly $19 million in new spending.
The 2010 National Rifle Association Convention? First pegged at $10.3 million, the CRVA later revised that estimate to an eye-popping $68 million.
In two weeks, Charlotte will host the Democratic National Convention its biggest event ever. Hotels, caterers and transportation companies are expecting a windfall, and the CRVA has estimated direct spending will range from $75 million to $134 million.
Economists have mixed views on the final economic impact of political conventions. Some argue the gains are large and long-lasting, while others say the new spending displaces economic activity that would have happened anyway.
The CRVAs track record on estimating economic impact is unreliable.
Under previous chief executive Tim Newman, the CRVA used questionable methodology and made the most optimistic sometimes erroneous projections, as was the case with attendance estimates for he NASCAR Hall of Fame.
For that project, the CRVA said first-year attendance would be 800,000. Only 270,000 showed up.
Return on tax dollars
The CRVAs questionable estimates of visitor spending also make it difficult to determine whether tax dollars spent on the Charlotte Convention Center are providing the best return.
The Convention Center is funded in part by a tax on hotel rooms, paid largely by visitors. Most of the centers funding, though, from a 1 percent tax on prepared food and beverages, a restaurant and bar tax paid for mostly by Charlotte-area residents who dine out.
For comparison, the roughly $30 million spent each year on the Convention Center dwarfs what the city spends building new sidewalks, about $7.5 million. Its also far greater than the roughly $7 million a year the city spends on affordable housing. In the past five years, the city has spent $1.4 million on Business Investment Grants, which are incentives for companies that relocate or expand in Charlotte.
By state law, the two hospitality taxes must be funneled to the Convention Center or tourism promotion.
Visitors spend less than CRVA says
The CRVA told the Observer that conventions and trade shows at the Convention Center generated $127 million in visitor spending in fiscal year 2011.
An examination of the authoritys methodology, as well as interviews with convention attendees, suggests the actual amount was about half of that.
And if less money is spent, the benefits in jobs supported and tax revenue generated decline as well.
In recent weeks, and in response to Observer questions, new CRVA chief executive Tom Murray studied the spending formula more closely. Kimberly Meesters, who became the CRVA spokesperson this spring, said Murray believes there are problems with the 2011 estimate. Now the CRVA is using a more conservative formula.
We plan to take a much more disciplined approach in the future, Meesters said.
Starting in 2007, the CRVAs measuring stick for visitor spending was a 2005 study from Destination Marketing Association International, which promotes the travel industry.
That DMAI survey said that, on average, a convention attendee would spend $290 a day about half on lodging, 30 percent on food and the rest on transportation and shopping. The convention hosts would spend $24 per attendee on food and drinks, according to the report.
The CRVA multiplied that $314 by the number of convention attendees and also by the number of convention days.
Those are presumptions that dont always ring true. In reality, some people attend a four-day convention for a day or two, while others share hotel rooms. Other attendees are day-trippers and never stay in a hotel.
That is especially true for the so-called SMERF market, which stands for social, military, educational, religious and fraternal market. Most of Charlottes biggest events are SMERF conventions, such as the Shriners and the NRA.
Because Charlotte is considered a second-tier destination, its more difficult to attract the lucrative professional meetings and trade shows, where attendees are on expense accounts.
Fraternal organizations like us, and the Moose and the American Legion, will have a lot of folks on fixed incomes, said Vanessa Kane, the manager of meetings and events for the Veterans of Foreign Wars, which is bringing its 2016 convention to Charlotte. You will get four ladies sharing a room. You will see couples sharing a room.
Such room-sharing was evident during Julys Shriners Imperial Session in Charlotte, a large SMERF meeting. When the CRVA booked the convention, it said 50,000 people would attend, using 20,000 hotel rooms.
50,000 people? Who said that? Thats absurd, said Jack English, the director of the Shriners Charlotte conference. I would say it was about 10,000 people.
The CRVA later said the group used 13,000 hotel rooms instead of 20,000. It said the 50,000 attendance number came from the group.
The CRVA projected the Shriners would spend $24.7 million. A more conservative estimate would be between $6 million and $10 million.
Frugal conventioneers
In July 2011, the religious group Gideons International met for six days at the Charlotte Convention Center. The CRVA said the group had 4,000 attendees, used 7,189 hotel rooms and spent $7.54 million in Charlotte.
In reality, the group said 3,185 people attended and it used only 5,581 hotel rooms. Thats 20 percent fewer people attending.
Interviews with Gideons attendees suggest the actual spending was far less perhaps as little as $2.5 million.
Most people were husbands and wives who split the hotel room cost. No one the Observer interviewed reported spending close to $300 a day, which is the CRVA estimate.
The typical outlay per person was about $160 a day half of a hotel room and about $50 to $75 a day on food and other expenses. Some people had to pay parking fees, while others took a cab from the airport.
Many drove from nearby locations and stayed one or two nights.
Our main cost is food, said Rick Skelley, who drove to Charlotte from Ohio. My wife and I are probably spending $100 a day for the both of us on meals.
Betty Schlepel and her husband stayed five nights at the Westin, but said they didnt spend much money outside of eating three meals in restaurants.
Asked if the couple together spent $100 combined on food, Schlepel said: Were more thrifty than that.
Evelyn Carlisle of San Antonio spent $80 at a Wal-Mart on food plus a microwave so she and her husband could eat in their room.
Were only eating Nutrisystem, she said.
With 3,185 people attending the conference, the convention used fewer than 5,600 room nights for the entire six days of the convention less than 1,000 rooms per night.
When making its spending estimates, the CRVA essentially assumed attendees all had their own hotel rooms for the entire convention, totaling 24,000 hotel room nights.
The College of Charleston last year studied the economic impact of Charlestons convention center. Its survey of convention attendees found that each person spent $168 a day far less than the CRVAs $314 estimate.
$314 sounds very high to me, said Bing Pan, a College of Charleston associate professor and head of research in the office of tourism analysis.
The CRVA doesnt do its own surveys of convention spending.
However, in some cases, attendees do spend more than $300 a day, especially during trade shows in which companies entertain potential customers.
At the World of Asphalt trade show in March, John Palmer of Toronto said he and a business associate would spend $4,000 in Charlotte over the four-day event. Attendance was even larger than originally projected, with 6,500 people instead 6,000, as the CRVA first estimated.
We do a lot of entertaining, Palmer said.
But such multi-day trade shows with big-spending sales people are a small portion of the Convention Centers business.
CRVA defended impact figures
In interviews with the Observer last year, former CRVA research director Mike Applegate defended the authoritys economic impact calculations. If anything, the CRVA estimates are conservative, he said.
All were doing here is using a tried and true number from 2005, Applegate said. Its applicable for all convention attendees.
Mike Butts, the director of Visit Charlotte, which is responsible for attracting conventions and tourists, said this spring that the CRVA tries to be conservative.
Our general philosophy is that it doesnt matter if its $14 million or $17 million its a big number, Butts said.
Other cities and consultants tally visitor spending differently.
Boston, a leading convention city, uses a more conservative formula to calculate direct spending, based in part on visitor surveys. The Massachusetts Convention Center Authority mostly focuses on how many hotel rooms are used rather than attendance and convention lengths.
For instance, Boston hosts the five-day Yankee Dental Congress, which has 28,000 attendees. The convention center authority estimates the group brings in roughly $13 million in direct spending.
Under the 2005 formula, the CRVA would have shown roughly $44 million in direct spending for the same convention.
A consultant making economic impact projections for a new convention center in Nashville differentiated between visitors who stay overnight and day-trippers, who were estimated to spend $57 a day.
And last fall, after numerous Observer questions about CRVA methodology, the CRVA began using a new formula recently released by DMAI.
It shows convention visitors spend far less than previously projected, refuting five years of earlier data.
Since the revised formula was released, the CRVA has said it has booked 27 Convention Center events, and projects those visitors will spend $40.6 million in Charlotte.
If the CRVA had used its former, inflated methodology, the number would have been $75.5 million.
In an email to the Observer, Meesters said there may be inconsistent data from previous years but we are making a concerted effort to improve it moving forward.
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Aerosols, Climate Change and The Dramatic Failure of Planck's Law
Physicists show how Planck's law of black body radiation breaks down for nanoparticles, a discovery that could have huge implications for climate science
In 1991, the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines released some 20 million tonnes of sulphur dioxide into the upper atmosphere. Sulphur dioxide reacts with other substances to produce airborne nanoparticles called sulphate aerosols, which tend to reflect sunlight.
Consequently, in the two years after the eruption, the global temperature dropped by about half a degree.
The effect of aerosols on the Earth's climate is hugely important but mind-bogglingly complex. In addition to cooling the Earth, some aerosols, such as soot, tend to absorb sunlight and so heat up the atmosphere.
A huge outstanding question in climate science is how these processes of heat absorption and reflection balance out.
Part of the problem is that nobody understands how nanoparticles absorb and emit heat. In theory, this process is governed by Planck's law, which describes the amount of electromagnetic radiation emitted by a perfect black body at a given temperature.
But in practice, real objects don't emit heat perfectly so physicists have to apply a correction factor called the spectral emissivity. This depends on the properties of the object's surface–it's material and roughness, for example.
In recent years, however, tantalising evidence has emerged indicating that an object's shape and volume may also play a role in this process.
Today, Christian Wuttke and Arno Rauschenbeutel at The Vienna University of Technology in Austria show for the first time how and why this true.
They point out that when an object is large compared to the wavelength of the radiation it is emitting, then surface effects dominate. But when an object is small compared to the wavelength, then radiation can be emitted from any point within its volume. In that case the geometry of the particle must play a role.
To prove the point, they measured the heat radiated by a silicon nanofibre with a diameter of 500nm, which is much smaller than the wavelength of thermal radiation.


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- Do you have an immigrant ancestor who lived in Multnomah County?
- Do you think he may have been naturalized in Multnomah County?
Naturalizations are some of the most-difficult records for a genealogist to locate. This is due to the cumbersome, disjointed processes that have prevailed. Prior to 1906, naturalization could take place in any court of record—at the city, county, state, or federal level. The various steps of the process might well have transpired in various courts across several states.
For the researcher who suspects their ancestor was naturalized in Multnomah County, Oregon, the process is complicated by the fact that naturalizations were granted by county courts and by federal courts—all located in Portland. Many of the records have been collected in archives far removed from the courtroom where the ancestor swore allegiance to the United States.
For handy reference, this web page is broken down into the following sections:
Naturalization After September 1906
Was the Ancestor Naturalized?
The first step is to determine if the ancestor was really naturalized. You may be able to find the answer to this question by looking at the 1900, 1910, 1920, and 1930 censuses. There is a column for citizenship status on all four.
If the ancestor voted, he was most likely naturalized. A set of Multnomah County voter registration cards for foreign-born voters for the years 1916 to 1967 was microfilmed by the Multnomah County Election Department. The card includes the name of the court where the voter was naturalized and the date that the naturalization occurred. Cancelled Voter Registration Cards
A Brief Summary of Naturalization Laws
The naturalization process has called for a declaration of intention, a petition for naturalization, depositions of reputable witnesses, and a final decree. Most pre-1906 records in Oregon provide the bare minimum of information: the name of applicant and his country of prior origins. Post-1906 records can provide ages, occupations, personal descriptions, dates and places of births, dates of emigrations, ports of embarkation and arrival, marital status, and similar information on children of the applicant.
Year | Law |
1790 | First United States Naturalization act enacted. Free white males over 21 years could apply for citizenship before any court of record after two years residence in the United States and one year in any state. No declaration of intention required. Naturalization could take place in any court of record. |
1795 | Three-year residence requirement for declaration of intent. Residency requirement for final papers increased to five years with one year in the state. Wives and children automatically became citizens (called derivative citizenship). Single women over 21 years could apply for citizenship. |
1802 | Citizenship bestowed upon widows and children of alien who had declared intent but died prior to final papers. |
1862 | Military veterans became citizens after honorable discharge. |
1906 | Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization formed. Aliens required to register upon entry. Residence: two years to declare intent, five years for final papers. Wives and minor children became citizens when father/husband was naturalized (derivative citizenship). |
1922 | Women aged 21 years could become citizens. Wives no longer became citizens upon husband's naturalization. Residency requirement for declaration of intent waived. |
Naturalization After September 1906
All courts conferring citizenship since 1906 have been required to use the standardized forms provided by the United States Naturalization Service (INS). They forwarded copies of the records to INS and now to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Thus, post-1906 naturalization documents on any person may exist locally or federally, and the INS/USCIS copy is housed in a central repository.
The importance of these records is that USCIS maintains a general index by name! They will search their index and provide copies of the documents. A caution: Records created within the past seventy-five years are deemed confidential, and there are restrictions on their access. Go to the USCIS web site. Click on the "Genealogy" link under "Services."
Just like naturalization is a two-step process, the search is a two-step process. First you apply for an Index Search ($20.00). Search results are returned to the researcher, along with instructions on how to request the file(s) from USCIS or the National Archives.
The index search is important because USCIS will check the following record groups:
- Naturalization Certificate Files (C-files) from September 27, 1906 to April 1, 1956;
- Alien Registration Forms from August 1, 1940 to March 31, 1944;
- Visa files from July 1, 1924 to March 31, 1944;
- Registry Files from March 2, 1929 to March 31, 1944; and
- Alien Files (A-files) numbered below 8 million (A8000000) and documents therein dated prior to May 1, 1951.
The second step is to request the records. Given the index search results, you can order the files. The fee is $20.00 (if the record is on microfilm) or $35.00 (if the record is in manuscript form).
There is often a copy of the naturalization file at the court where the naturalization took place. Searching for Multnomah County, Oregon Naturalization Files
The search takes from two months to one year to complete.
Naturalization Before September 1906
It is more difficult to locate naturalization records created before September 1906 since there is no master index. The courts in each locality where an ancestor lived must be searched. Even when a file is discovered, it often does not provide much information.
Did your immigrant ancestor receive Federal land? If so, he or she was a citizen. Under the Homestead Act of 1862 and the Donation Land Act of 1850, applicants had to be citizens to receive federal land. A copy of the naturalization papers is included in their Land Case File.
Search Land Patents on-line at: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov. If you do not have Internet access, check the Index to Oregon Donation Land Claims, a book published by the Genealogical Forum of Oregon (GFO). Also, look at the BLM Tract Books, on microfiche, in the Forum Library.
Genealogical Forum of Oregon Library ( visitor fee)
The Forum has a research service, and a member of the Research Committee will look up the information from the Index to Oregon Donation Land Claims for you. The fee is $10.00 for an hour or research. Photocopies are an additional 25-cents per page. Please enclose a long stamped, self-addressed envelope with your request and send to:
If you find that your ancestor had a Homestead or Donation Land Claim, you can obtain a copy of the entire file (including the naturalization papers) from the National Archives. The fee is $37.00. Request a copy of NATF Form 84, "National Archives Order for Copies of Land Entry Files," from the National Archives. You can send an e-mail request for the form to email@example.com. Or, you can download the form. Mail requests for the form should be sent to:
National Archives & Records Administration
700 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington DC 20408-001
The Genealogical Forum of Oregon Library and the Oregon State Archives have the microfilmed set of Oregon Donation Land Claim case files, but the files do not include the naturalization papers. When the files were filmed, it was not permitted to copy naturalization papers.
Did Your Ancestor Vote in Multnomah County? Foreign Born Voter Registrations.
If your ancestor voted in Multnomah County, you will probably find their registration card on the "Foreign Registration Cards Prior to Sept. 1967". The cards include the date and name of the court where the naturalization took place.
A set of the 29 rolls is in the:
- Genealogical Forum of Oregon Library, .
- Multnomah County Records Center. Telephone to set up an appointment to view: 503-988-3741.
Multnomah County Courthouse
If you have not found your ancestor's naturalization, and you are positive the naturalization took place in Multnomah County, here is the next step.
Contact the Multnomah County Circuit Court File room at the Multnomah County Courthouse. The court staff will check the Multnomah County Naturalization Indexes. Note: there is usually a back-log of requests.
Multnomah County Courthouse
1021 SW 4th Avenue
Portland, OR 97204
In October 2006, the Oregon State Archives prepared an inventory of Multnomah County court records. The following information about Multnomah County naturalization records was taken from the online inventory at Oregon State Archive's web site, http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/county/cphome.html.
Multnomah County Courthouse, Circuit Court File Room, Room 131:
- Circuit Court Citizenship Journal, vol. 160-161, 1903-1905 (2 volumes); vol. 167–168, 1905–1906 (2 volumes)
- Citizenship Docket [Hearing of Application for Citizenship-at back of volume], 1907–1908 (1 volume)
- Hearing of Petitions for Naturalizations Docket, 1908-–1912 (1 volume)
- Index to Citizen [title varies], 1854–1906 (2 volumes)
- Index to Citizenship Journal, 1854–1906 (1 volume)
- Index to Declaration of Intention, vol. 1, 1852–1912 (1 volume)
- Journal County Court Law-includes some citizenship and insanity cases, vol. 1–8, 1859–1934 (4 reels of microfilm)
- Journal County Court Law-includes some citizenship and insanity cases, vol. 1–8, 1859–1934 (4 reels of microfilm)
- Naturalization Index, 1906–1920 (1 reel of microfilm)
- Naturalization Index, 1906–1920 (1 volume and 1 reel of microfilm)
- Naturalization Index, 1906–1920 (1 volume)
- Naturalization Index, 1906–1920 (1 volume)
- Petition and Record [with index], vol. 1–22, 1906–1920 (22 volumes)
- Record of Declarations of Intention [title varies-with index], vol. 3–29, 1888–1913 (27 volumes); vol. 31–45, 1913–1920 (15 volumes)
Multnomah Building, Multnomah County Recording Office Public Research Room, Suite 125:
- Miscellaneous Books [includes some Certificates of Citizenship], vol. 3-87, 1887–1929 (12 reels of microfilm); vol. 1–40, 1929–ca.1940 (10 reels of microfilm)
Towne Storage Building, Multnomah County Circuit Court Records Area:
- Certificates of Naturalization, 1907–1921 (77 volumes)
- Citizenship Records [Record of Citizenship], 1923–1929 (.40 cu.ft.)
Federal Court Naturalizations, the U.S. District Court and the US Circuit Court
If the search of the Multnomah County Circuit Court does not bring results, all is not lost. Many people became citizens at the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Circuit Court, also located in Portland.
A consolidated index to naturalization proceedings in the U.S. District Court and the U.S. Circuit Court for Oregon between 1859 and 1946 has been microfilmed as "M1242, Indexes to the Naturalization Records of the U.S. District Court for Oregon, 1859–1956." The researcher can find these indexes at the Genealogical Forum Library.
The records that go with the microfilm index cards are at the Federal Records Center of the National Archives—Pacific Alaska Region in Seattle, Washington.
Federal Records Center
6125 Sand Point Way NE
Seattle, Washington 98115-7999
E-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
Many of the records at the Pacific Alaska Region NARA have been indexed on Ancestry.com. See their "Oregon, Naturalization Records 1895–1999" collection.
Records for the U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Oregon in the Federal Records Center, Seattle
- Court journals of proceedings, 1859–1877
- Declarations of intention, 1859–1906
- Indexes to declarations and petitions, 1906–1956
- Journals of admission to citizenship, 1877–1906
- Petitions, 1904–1970
- Unindexed petitions based on military service, 1868–1879
Records for the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon in the Federal Records Center, Seattle
- Court journals of proceedings, 1863–1877
- Declarations of intention, 1897–1911
- Indexes to declarations and petitions, 1906–1911
- Journals of admission to citizenship, 1877–1906
- Petitions, 1904–1911
For further information about naturalization, here are the names of some guidebooks that you can find at the GFO library.
Greenwood, Val D. "American Aids to Finding the Home of the Immigrant Ancestor." The Researcher's Guide to American Genealogy. 2nd Edition. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990, pp 465–484. [Bibliography includes books about naturalization.]
Newman, John J. American Naturalization Records 1790–1990 What They Are and How to Use Them. Bountiful UT: Heritage Quest, 1985, 1988. [Laws relating to naturalization, sample naturalization records, bibliography.]
Schaefer, Christina K. Guide to Naturalization Records of the United States. Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1987. [State-by-state list of records.]
Szucs, Loretto Dennis. They Became Americans: Finding Naturalization Records and Ethnic Origins. Salt Lake City, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1998.


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I am wondering if anyone knows the name of either of these two wildflowers. They are currently in bloom in the Cascades of Oregon at about the 5000 foot level. Here are the pictures: Wildflower01 and Wildflower02 Thanks, Jon |
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''A world freed from the scandal of poverty, where trade is just and people and communities can flourish'' These are the words of Traidcraft's vision statement – and what we at our church are contributing towards by using and selling their products. For more information on Traidcraft go to http://www.traidcraft.co.uk/ - see also statement following this introduction. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are a fair trade church in a Fairtrade Town and committed to using fairly traded refreshments at all our meetings and events. Alongside this we have a stall, stocking delicious food, cards, beautifully crafted jewellery and home accessories from Traidcraft. This provides farmers and suppliers with a decent price and working conditions for the goods that they produce. You will be able to buy from our stall after services on a Sunday or at the coffee fellowship on Wednesday mornings. Do come and see the lovely range we have on offer. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
TRAIDCRAFT AUTUMN UPDATE With September upon us, the new Traidcraft catalogue is now available, showing the Autumn range and, dare I say it, the Christmas one too. Please pick one up from the Church foyer if you would like to browse through.
Then in October we shall be holding our annual Traidcraft event, on Saturday 25th, as usual from 10am until 1pm. It will follow the same format as before, with plenty of bargains to be had too. I have been buying in the sale during the summer and will be able to pass those savings on. Refreshments will be available and other 'tasters' too.
It is so important to continue to buy Fairtrade goods, at special events, but also on a regular basis.
The Traidcraft stall needs your support.
We know you can buy Fairtrade products more cheaply in the supermarket – but where does that profit go? To shareholders.
Buy from a Traidcraft stall and you are supporting a Christian organisation which exists to fight poverty through trade; a company which measures its success, not by profit, but by its volume of purchases from the developing world.
The 3 billion people living on under $2 a day have hope in the Traidcrafts of this world, which work to bring the benefits of trade to those who need it most.
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There are millions more who still need this chance.
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Miley Cyrus is all grown up. Wearing a sophisticated black dress, she arrived at the Starkey Hearing Foundation's "So The World May Hear Awards Gala" 2011 at River Centre in St. Paul, Minn. She was all smiles as the cameras flashed and even rocked out when she later performed at the charity event.
Once inside to perform, Miley swapped outfits and wore a more wild leopard-print top and leather pants. She performed five songs at the big event including "The Climb," "Who Owns My Heart," "Landslide," "Every Rose Has Its Thorn," and "The Driveway." After the event, she announced on Twitter that she had bid (and won!) one of the auction items. So what did she walk away with? A trip to Haiti!
"Going back to Haiti :) just bid at the @starkeyhearing gala and it's confirmed! I am so excited! Bringing all my friends this time. #blessed"Miley was among celebs including Whoopi Goldberg, Gary Busey, Kevin Coster and Garth Brooks, who attended to annual gala.
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Submitted by VR on Fri, 04/05/2013 - 18:25"I knew that, by and large, TSA agents were a dour, rigid lot with no respect for freedom and human dignity, but until I heard about this latest incident, I didn't know that they were soulless too."
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So, where it says "Virus name" is blank, therefore, I guess it's blocked for inapropriate content? I agree! It is totally inapropriate for the TSA to dump someones grandfathers ashes on the floor. That is totally inapropriate behavior by a power happy uniformed thug!
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If it is on the "news"....
Then you have to automatically wonder if it's the truth...AND always, what is the purpose of that "story" being scripted, produced and aired?
A couple of years ago through research, I saw clear evidence that "news" stories are completely fabricated, "war stories" done in studio or the Nevada desert, a complete deception. Some of the other stories that were caught red handed being scripted actually had police officers as actors. I was and am 100% sure that the stories were completely contrived. The one's involving police as actors were about police acting very unjust, well made stories, that invoked an emotional response and hatred towards the police. The only reason I can think of for the production of those stories was to build civil unrest.
This was back before I even knew of Ron Paul. I started looking into it after reading an article on Yahoo about "homegrown terrorists" who were stopped. Their plan was to use model airplanes to bomb the pentagon. I had designed, built, and flown model aircraft for decades and the story was a complete lie. Not just me, but many others were commenting that the little model jets shown in no way could be used to carry any amount of explosives...maybe enough to break a windshield, that's about it. The story was taken down and disappeared. It was fabricated, likely to instill fear, and when the government starts killing it's own citizens, will refer to them as terrorists. All a show. The ones the current establishment will call terrorists are those who want to expose their crimes and grand scale deceptions.
Anyways, can't be so sure this story is real even...kind of sucks, I mean I am against the whole idea of the TSA as much as the next guy, but I really think that the current establishment is trying to start WWIII plus a civil war here in the US. It will then be time for the UN to establish the "rule of law" and "new world order" these puppet presidents keep eluding to. Otherwise stated, the downfall and takeover of the United States is being orchestrated right before our eyes. The one's doing it are presenting themselves as the one's protecting us from it....all made possible by an almost complete control of the nation's media and advanced insight into psychology in order to literally brainwash with said media programming.
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On a side note
When I saw evidence that news stories were being fabricated, I was furious and alarmed. Back then I still had some notion that there was justice to be found. So, I took to calling every FBI office in America...lol
Most "investigators" that I talked to had zero interest in what I was telling them, they simply weren't buying it and am sure did not look at the evidence. Being very determined, I called as many as I could. Obviously elements of the organization are fully corrupt, but not all FBI agents are. Many are really good people who are victims of the brainwashing the media has done. Several of them actually listened, and were interested in what I showed them. To this day, I am pretty sure after communicating with some of them, they know that the "news" is being scripted, which gives me some hope regarding this Sandy Hook thing.
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I don't entirely doubt what
I don't entirely doubt what you're saying, but I think if you're going to say that it would be best to get a bunch of evidence together, maybe make a website, and link to it.
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Here you go.
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You sound like...
You sound like you get your pay check to be a disinformation troll.
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